Installing Cron on Cygwin
Submitted by Aaron Longwell on Tue, 2005-06-28 17:40.
To set up cron on Cygwin, first install the cron package with the Cygwin installer. Then install cron as a service.
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a D
After the service is installed, it can be started.
net start cron
By default, crontab is set up to use vi as its editor. I prefer nano, so I change the EDITOR environment variable to let crontab aware of my preference. I edit $HOME/.bash_profile and add the following lines.
EDITOR=nano
export EDITOR
I then re-read the BASH profile.
source $HOME/.bash_profile
Finally, the crontab file can be edited in the usual way.
crontab -e
cygrunsrv itself has to be
cygrunsrv itself has to be installed as well. It can be found in the "Admin" category right under cron.
Note the correct sintax for
Note the correct sintax for passing service parameters is
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
Nice article, very
Nice article, very helpful.
You should update it though to reflect rleblic's correction though.
Is it possible to make cron
Is it possible to make cron to read .bash_profile file? And if yes: does it read the/.bash_profile or the home/Administrator/.bash_profile (as it's installed on cyg_server account)?
Thanks in advance
Ela
@Ella You could always
@Ella
You could always manually `source' your .bash_profile in the scripts that you call through cron.
Very good post, thanks a
Very good post, thanks a lot.
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